>I don't think there _is_ any "correctly". TCP does not have OOB. What
>it has is an urgent pointer. Some grad student who must have been
>either on drugs or on a minimal understanding of TCP thought it would
>be useful to take the byte the urgent pointer points to and treat it as
>a byte in an out-of-band channel.

I think the issue probably has more to do with interpreting what the urgent
pointer means. If I remember correctly, 793 was ambiguous (it said two
different things in two different places) and BSD picked the "wrong" one
(having just re-read it, I probably would have too). If you follow 1122, then
you disagree with BSD by one byte, which is a real pain. I don't know why the
authors of 1122 didn't just admit defeat and codify the BSD practice ;->.

-- Steve

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